Ancient Egypt looms large in popular culture, from Indiana Jones to The Prince of Egypt. The country is a treasure trove of ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 ...

It was a meeting between the Europe of the future and the Egypt of the past ... But Bonaparte’s dreams of an empire in the middle East were quickly shattered. The British Admiral Horatio ...